Brazil: the Warmth from the "Country of the Future"

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  Paradise of biological species
  It is unimaginable of the love of Brazilians for Brazil and they always say "the God is Brazilian". In their mind, it is not only the holy land for football but also the "paradise" for biological species. The statistics show that Brazil is one of the 17 countries of "mega biodiversity" and 22% of earth species are found in Brazil. In the past 4 years, researchers found 169 new species in Amazon jungle including 155 animals and 14 plants. Besides newly found fish, birds, amphibious and reptiles, there is still a macaca silenus only in the country.
  At the same time, what makes Brazilian proud is the abundant natural resource there. The country has an amazing storage of 29 mineral deposits, like the reserve volume of nickel is 6 million tons covering 4.0% of that in the world and mainly distributed in Goias and Minas Gerais; metal reserves account for 10% of that in the world including manganese, bauxite, lead and tin; colombite ore is verified of 4.559 million tons; since 2007, major oil and gas fields are found along the southeast coast that it would be listed in the world top 10 petroleum country…forest coverage rate of Brazil is 57% with timber reserve of 65.8 cubic meters. Brazil still owns 18% of world fresh water with per capita amount of 29,000 cubic meters and water conservancy capacity of 143 million kilowatt per year.
  Brazilian government spares no efforts in protecting biodiversity. In 1994, it on purpose set up the "National Biodiversity Plan" to negotiate related affairs and implement related projects; in 2002, the environmental department became the department in charge of biodiversity; in 2003, it established national biodiversity committee to provide advises in advanced areas and actions for biodiversity protection; in April, 2015, the senate passed the new Biodiversity Protection Law to provide convenience in scientific research and legal business development of biodiversity, especially genetic ones and improve the utilization efficiency in biological resource.
  In protecting ecological environment, besides the attention paid by the government on "biodiversity", it also devotes a lot in infrastructure construction. Such as the strict approval system of infrastructure construction in ecological protective zones: in Amazon, if new infrastructure will be built, it should apply to the environment and renewable natural resource bureau of environment department and the local government has no authority in this regard.   Prestigious kingdom of tourism
  In Brazil, the local tourist resource is famous as well. It is known that the tourist resource here is rich and various just like the bio-species. Amazon jungle is praised as "the lung of the earth" is at north, vigorously flowing Iguazu waterfall is at south and big swamp with rare wild animals is at middle and western part. As a big tourist country, Brazil receives more than 6 million foreign tourists a year and is in the second place in South America just behind Argentina.
  In the travelling plan of many tourists, there would be a long list of the scenic spots that tourist must visit in Brazil: Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Brasilia city, the Church of El Salvador and Manaus Freeport. And of course they should go to the Lencois Maranhenses National Park covering 1,500 square meters at northeast of Brazil. Due to the Amazon basin, the white beach of the park would have unique lagoon; Bonito, known as the "demonstrative city of Brazilian ecological tourism", provides unexpected experience for tourists with diving in lakes of caves, seeing stalactites in jungle and visiting half-water garden in glasslike waters; the Fernando de Noronha is also should be mentioned. It is composed of 21 small islands with flourish forests, happy dolphins and flying birds. People would return to their original nature when inside the island.
  Brazilian government pays attention to the tourism resource development as well. The materials shows that in 1995, in order to use and protect local tourism resource in a proper way, the country put forward national ecological tourist plan and guidance of ecological tourism development and built 18 ecological tourist zones including Amazon with the loan from World Bank. In order to avoid the bad influence from tourism to environment, the government stressed the development of tourism should be on the premise of protecting the local historical and cultural appearance for the harmony of tourism, environment and society.
  Orderly advanced "sustainable development"
  "Brazil has achieved long-term development in green economy pushed by sustainable development. Such as wide use of renewable energy, protection of forests and lands, development of city fast transportation, reuse and recycle network of city garbage. But there are still problems need to be solved," said by Former President Fernando Corral in Brasilia.
  In recent years, Brazil has its own track on the way of "sustainable development".   For the use of clean energy, according to the UN report on the Global Trend of Renewable Resource Investment, Brazil's investment in clean energy increased 93% compared with last year and listed at the 7th place of global biggest renewable resource investment countries.
  Brazil also did research and development in improving energy utilization rate. In the middle of 1970s, Brazilian government has implemented the "plan of alcohol", which is using alcohol instead of gasoline. It is because ethyl alcohol emits 90% less carbon than gasoline when burning and it can be vehicle fuel as a clean and renewable energy. In fact the extracting and purification of ethyl alcohol industry is advanced worldwide. All gas stations should use gasoline with water free ethyl alcohol in a certain proportion to reduce carbon emission. Since the end of 2008, Brazil has also developed an extract technology for vehicle fuel to have progress in cost control and environmental emission.
  The "sustainable development" in agriculture is in low-carbon agriculture. As a new growth method, it not only gets the political support from government, but also the related loans. It is said that, the time for the implementation of low-carbon agriculture is from 2010 to 2020 and 6 of its 7 contents are low-carbon agriculture transformation technologies. The plan stresses to "meet the social demand within 2 years."
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